Obituary

Joseph B. Bugliari, professor emeritus of applied economics and management, who was Cornell's first judicial administrator and who served as dean of the faculty for six years, died Oct. 20 in Ithaca. He was 70.

Bugliari, a native of Plainfield, N.J., joined the Cornell faculty, full-time, as an associate professor in 1967. He had a joint appointment in the department once called Agricultural Economics (now Applied Economics and Management) and in the Graduate School of Business and Public Administration (now the Johnson Graduate School of Management).

Before coming to Cornell, Bugliari was a confidential law assistant to Walter B. Reynolds, associate justice of the Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court. Bugliari began teaching part time at Cornell while working for Reynolds, from 1961 to 1967. In the midst of turbulent times and campus strife, Cornell President Dale R. Corson made Bugliari the university's first judicial administrator in the fall of 1969.

Bugliari also served as director of Cornell's Legal Services, chairman of the university's Academic Standards committee and chairman of the Academic Integrity Review Board in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. The graduating seniors in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences voted him Professor of Merit in 1971, and the chancellor of the State University of New York gave him the Excellence in Teaching Award in 1976.

In 1983 Bugliari was elected dean of the faculty. During his first year in the office, he instituted a system for keeping students' grades confidential, and he changed Cornell's academic calendar to eliminate Saturday and Sunday exams.

In addition to his teaching and administrative responsibilities, Bugliari had a passion for golf. He missed playing in the U.S. Open in 1974 only after being narrowly defeated by a touring professional golfer on the fourth sudden-death playoff hole in a qualifying round at Oak Hill Country Club in Rochester, N.Y.

Bugliari earned a B.A. from Hamilton College in 1953 and a J.D. from Cornell Law School in 1959.

Bugliari is survived by his mother, Margaret D. Bugliari of New Jersey; by a son and daughter-in law, Jeffrey and Donna Turco Bugliari, and their children, of Dryden; a daughter and son-in-law, Linda and Dana Philbrook, and their daughters, of Hopkinton, Mass.; and by a brother and sister-in-law, Miller and Elizabeth Bugliari, of New Jersey.

Funeral services will be held today, Oct 24, at 11 a.m. at St. John's Episcopal Church in Ithaca, and a burial will follow at Pleasant Grove Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations may be directed to the American Cancer Society.